10 Legitimate Criticisms Of The Dark Knight Rises

8. Bane Traps A Tumbler In His Lair Just To Make A Point To Bruce

Tumbler The first showdown between Bane and Batman is the start of the film€™s destructive middle act. After an hour or so of set up suddenly all the things that looked indestructible (Batman, Gotham€™s bridges) are spectacularly broken down. To hammer home both the mental failure of Batman after a fight that humiliatingly shows his physical inferiority Bane reveals he€™s known about his hidden armoury the whole time (probably through Miranda Tate€™s connections plot hole callers). He shows this to Bruce by bringing one of the Tumblers down into his lair. From a creative aspect this decision is obvious - it€™s the only way for Bruce to see it - but it€™s pretty dumb from a character standpoint. Wayne Enterprises doesn't have a massive supply of them, so why decommission one by trapping it in the sewers? Later on in the film, when the Wayne Board are being brought to the nuclear reactor, you can see some of Bane€™s men working on a Tumbler. Even if they did want them in the sewers to modify them, there€™s better ways to bring them down than destroying a whole floor.
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Film Editor (2014-2016). Loves The Usual Suspects. Hates Transformers 2. Everything else lies somewhere in the middle. Once met the Chuckle Brothers.